Indian army’s atrocities on the people of Kashmir including their murder, rape and fake encounters have turned Kashmir into a hell that would stretch Dante’s imagination. At least ten civilians were killed and over 40 injured in Kashmir on Saturday within eight hours after Indian security forces shot at crowds of anti-India protesters. Indian troops surrounded a village in Kashmir’s southern Pulwama region after being told that militants were hiding there, said a local police officer. During the last three years, they have blinded thousands of innocent Kashmiris and injured in equal number with the pellet shot guns. In a video that went viral, Asifa Bakhtawar sustained bullet injuries in firing by the Indian Security forces in Sopore area on December11, 2018. Apart from others, two year old baby girl was also hit by the pellets and suffered eye injuries.
It is unfortunate that international community does not impress upon India to implement the United Nations Security Resolutions that bestow on Kashmiris the right to self-determination. Kashmir is bleeding for the last seven decades, and Indian armed forces and police continue to perpetrate atrocities on the people of Indian Held Kashmir. The new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet after assuming office backed the first ever report on the humans rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir issued by her predecessor and reiterated the request for access to visit both sides of the line of the control. Bachelet lamented the fact that the report had not got a favorable response from the relevant authorities. She said: “In Kashmir, our recent report on the human rights situation has not been followed up with meaningful improvements or even open and serious discussions on how the grave issues raised could be addressed.”
Bachelet, who took over as UN human rights commissioner from Zeid Raad Al Hussein in August, delivered her first speech to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 10, 2018. In her maiden statement, Bachelet made references to human rights hot spots including Kashmir. In June, Zeid Raad as UN human rights commissioner had released a report on the “human rights situation” in Jammu and Kashmir, focusing on the period from July 2016 to April 2018. The report stated that allegations of widespread and serious human rights violations were received, notably excessive use of force by Indian security forces that led to numerous civilian casualties. It is more than six months that First-ever UN human rights report on Kashmir was released on 4th June 2018, which called for international inquiry into multiple violations in Indian Held Kashmir.
With the passage of time, Indian leaders stand exposed for their hypocrisy. First PM of India Jawaharlal Nehru had committed on the floor of Lok Sabha (Parliament) to implement UNSC resolutions on Kashmir, but later he changed his stance. Mohandas Gandhi was the most revered leader of India, but now he is being dubbed as racist. Statue of Mahatma Gandhi has been pulled down from a university in Ghana after lecturers complained that was racist. In his early writings, while living in South Africa, he referred to black Africans as “savages”. The lecturers objecting to the monument claimed Gandhi had been “uncharitable in his attitude to the black race” and questioned why the university chose to honor him over an African independence leader. Activists in South Africa have campaigned to have a Gandhi statue in Johannesburg removed. Protesters in Malawi are also campaigning against plans to put up a Gandhi statue in the capital Blantyre over his writings.
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